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BD. OF CTY. RD. COMM'RS v. BD. OF STATE CANVASSERS

Docket Nos. 55,344, 55,366.

391 Mich. 666 (1974)

218 N.W.2d 144

BOARDS OF COUNTY ROAD COMMISSIONERS v. BOARD OF STATE CANVASSERS

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided May 21, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tom Downs and Keller, Cohn, Downs & Svenson (John P. Cushman, for Wayne County Road Commission, Hillman, Baxter & Hammond [by William S. Farr], for Kent County Road Commission, L.W. McEntee, for Oakland County Road Commission, Robert F. Browning, for Michigan Road Builders Association, Inc., William Dietrich, for City of Detroit DSR, Daniel P. Dozier, for Michigan UAWCAP, Patrick Hynes, for City of Flint, Michael Kell, for Michigan Trucking Association, Dickinson, Wright, McKean & Cudlip [by Thomas G. Kienbaum], for Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority, and Marston, Sachs, O'Connell, Nunn & Freid, for Michigan AFL-CIO, of counsel), for plaintiffs.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, and Solomon H. Bienefeld and Charles D. Hackney, Assistants Attorney General, for defendant.

Durant, Talbot, Grant & McQuarrie, for intervening defendant.

PER CURIAM:

Const 1963, art 2, § 9 reserves to the people "the power to approve or reject laws enacted by the legislature, called the referendum." This constitutional provision provides, however, that the power of referendum does not extend to acts "making appropriations for state institutions".

On March 29, 1973, petitions were filed with the Board of State Canvassers requesting a referendum on 1972 PA 326...

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